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Usually on the weekend I'll do a low and slow, watch football, drink a few and build stage props for my daughters competition dance team. Here's a cave and stones I just finished. It's kinda hard to see the textures and faux paint....but overall, I was pleased with it.

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Mine is in Grade ten (Junior?). Full dance program at an arts high school and 30 hours a week now and they haven't picked the competitives yet. Ouch, hope she gets a scholarship.

@henapple, great looking props, lucky to have you as a parent with talent vs a parent with attitude.

Sophomore, is grade 10 I think, the progression is freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.

My daughter is now 35, in high school was a national level gymnast, 40 hrs a week in the gym, kept her out of trouble. I hope Dance is less expensive - but I doubt it.

The costumes average $300 each, the competition fees are about the same per dance, plus the regular fees and I wont even talk about the shoes. With the travel it's about 30K a year. As a good friend of mine who is a pro level hockey instructor and whose daughter dances with mine said "It's like watching your kid play a shift...every two (expletive) hours."

@Little_Steven, $30K is about right, love the comment on watching a shift every two hours. In my daughter's case, when she did get to perform, it was always a solo event, but it was an agonizing wait between events. (I'm sure other parents felt the same way as they waited to watch the apple of their eye)